Jumia

Monday, 15 August 2016

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Abayomi
Olonishakin, on Monday responded to the prisoners’ swap demand made by Boko
Haram in a new video of the abducted Chibok girls.

The terrorist group released the video on Sunday showing
some of the over 200 girls abducted in 2014 from their school’s dormitory in
Chibok, Borno State in Northeast Nigeria.

While addressing reporters after a workshop organised for
top Security Chiefs in Abuja, Lieutenant General Olonishakin said that the
demand that the Federal Government swap detained Boko Haram members for the
Chibok Girls was a political decision that would not stop ongoing military
operations.

The workshop was organised for top Security Chiefs on how to
respond to emergency situations such as terrorism and flood inside the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Also at the workshop was the Minister of Information, Mr Lai
Mohammed, who reiterated his position that the government was on top of the
situation.

He said efforts to rescue the girls would continue until the
girls are out.